1. Chef indien.
2. Premier d'un concours.
ETYM Spanish.
Black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics; SYN. cazique.
Person involved in nepotism or fraud. Originally a word for Indian chiefs in colonial Spanish America, in late 19th-and early 20th-century Spain it came to mean the local political boss who “delivered” votes to the main parties in Madrid.